Human Rights nightmare in China as two prominent activists jailed for over a decade each for subversion

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New Delhi: Two prominent activists, Xu Zhiyong (50) and Ding Jiaxi (55), were sentenced to prison for subversion after more than three years in prison in China. Ding Jiaxi's wife Luo Shengchun tweeted that a court in Shandong province had sentenced him to 12 years in prison, and deprived him of political rights for three years, reported the BBC. 丁家喜有期徒刑12年,剥夺政治权利3å¹´ — Luo Shengchun丁家喜律师妻子 (@luoshch) April 10, 2023 Shengchun continued by saying that the second activist, Xu Zhiyong was jailed for 14 years. In June 2022, their trial behind closed doors lasted just one day. She lives in the United States….